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The Black Gentlemen of Trong Suan

The Black Gentlemen of Trong Suan
  • Author(s): John McMahon
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In southern Thailand a young man arrives in a small town during a lightening storm with nothing more than his wits, a small fortune and an old mans diary. He sets up what appears to be an idle life...

The Crow: Temple of Night

The Crow: Temple of Night
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The Eternal One At our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and...

The Half-Child

The Half-Child
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something private investigator who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town. Maryanne Delbeck...

The Happiness of Kati

The Happiness of Kati
  • Author(s): Jane Vejjajiva
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Nine-year-old Kati has always lived with her grandparents in the house by the river. Every day she goes to school, brings offerings to the monks, and plays with Tong, the abbot’s nephew. She is happy enough, but something —...

The Journal

The Journal
  • Author(s): R D Stevens
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Ethan Willis is a confused 18 year old who struggles with the uncertainties of life and has embarked on a quest to find his elder sister, Charlotte, who disappeared whilst travelling in South East Asia. Ethan admires and idolises...

The Last Executioner

The Last Executioner
  • Author(s): Chavoret Jaruboon
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s / early 21st century

Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in...

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Thailand

The Lonely Hearts Travel Club (Destination Thailand
  • Author(s): Katy Colins
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mderner

Instead of slipping on her something borrowed and tripping up the aisle to wedded bliss, Georgia spends her big day crying into a warm Sex-on-the-Beach, wondering where it all went wrong. Forced to make a bucket list of her...

The Monsoon Ghost Image

The Monsoon Ghost Image
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The third Detective Maier mystery is a taut and crazy spy thriller for our disturbing times. When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon....

The Secret of the Purple Lake

The Secret of the Purple Lake
  • Author(s): Yaba Badoe, Gbolahan Adams (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ghana, Norway, Orkney Islands, Spain, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

The Secret of the Purple Lake is a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to Norway and Thailand. As a minor character from one story assumes a major role in...

The Suspect

The Suspect
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): Thailand, Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can...

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